While I was drowning last night's loss with bourbon, I was wondering if, given the weather, we should have used Re-al to give Kstate a dose of its own medicine.
I wish we could do this, but the fact is we can't.
I'd love nothing more than to put in Re Al and run the option like 18 plays in a row against KSU and just run it down their throats like they did to us last night, but the fact is, our OL isn't good enough, and overall we're just not tough enough to do that to anyone.
Jared mentioned this in his podcast after the game last night. We were out-toughed all night on both sides of the ball.... and outcoached too.
But I get what you're saying. If we refuse to let Brock run, then we might as well take all the RPO's, the play action, etc out of the playbook because no defense is going to respect it when they know Brock won't run it.
I'd absolutely LOVE to bring in Re Al and just play smash mouth football like KSU does, but we don't have the OL or the toughness to do that unfortunately.
Football always has been won and lost on being able to run the ball, and stop the run. Last night we couldn't do either. And especially with 40 mph winds, that's not a good recipe for success.